<p>Are there grad toy design programs and/or other ways to break into toy design or get experience in it after the undergraduate level? I hope I'm assuming correctly that not all working toy designers got a formal undergraduate education in industrial design, engineering, or toy design? I'm an english major, but very much interested, and I hope this area won't be entirely closed off to me just because I wasn't an art major. Appreciate it if anyone has anything to say regarding this or can point me to another resource where I could find this information. :D</p>
<p>Toy design is a related field to Industrial Design, and you would do well to get that degree. We've had several of our students intern at Hasbro, with mixed success. That said, the field of toy design is about as obnoxiously elite as car design: if you aren't one of a handful of consultancies that traditionally "bid" on major toy designers projects, you aren't going to get to work with the major companies.</p>
<p>Otis College of Art & Design, has a Toy Design major but at the undergraduate level, it's one of the most rigorous and strongest programs at Otis.</p>